Jean-Baptiste Morin and Astrology

Jean-Baptiste Morin and Astrology

I posted recently about using AI to generate horoscopes for use in my fifth novel of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, The Favourite Murder. I have been writing a scene today where Anthony is meeting with Jean-Baptiste Morin (1583-1656) to have is horoscope done....
The Pencil

The Pencil

I write the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures on my computer and sometimes my tablet. I make notes in my notebook or on scraps of paper with whatever is at hand, pen or pencil. In The Suggested Assassin Sir Anthony yearns for a kind of magic quill which could be used to...
AI and Writing

AI and Writing

I have written about AI before. I have occasionally used it to create an illustration for my blog, often with hilarious results. But I have now found a use for AI in writing. In my work in progress, The Favourite Murder, the fifth book in the Sir Anthony Standen...
Language and Gamut

Language and Gamut

I become increasingly fascinated by language. I studied English (language and literature), French and German at O Level, before focussing on maths and physics at A level, and Engineering Science at university. Only when I took a degree in Modern Language Studies...
History – The Prequel

History – The Prequel

Claire told me long ago that time immemorial, or before legal memory, is defined as before 1189 A.D., and was fixed by the Statute of Westminster in 1275. Today we visited Stonehenge, a Neolithic stone circle on Salisbury Plain, and it made me wonder what the...